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Pretty much everybody I know and asked in the office just sticks some punctuation at the end, e.g. "Passw0rd$". IDK how much of an "improvement" that is, compar
by guitarbill 8y ago
Pretty much everybody I know and asked in the office just sticks some punctuation at the end, e.g. "Passw0rd$". IDK how much of an "improvement" that is, compared to e.g. 4 extra characters.
- hyperpape 8y agoThat's definitely a thing, and you're right, it doesn't add much entropy (people choose from a few numbers, a few special characters, not that many substitutions). Four extra characters that are truly random (even just out of 26 letters) is way better. However, that's not the alternative I'm worried about. I'm worried about people using phrases that will be in the first few thousand entries in a phrase dictionary.